Short description:

It is a tripartite combination of interviews with writers of the speculative fiction, genre, literary and cultural analysis of those interviews within the context of seven discrete yet overlapping dimensions: folklore, mythology, children?s and young adult literature, science, technology, climate disaster, and identity

Long description:

Caribbean Futurism and Beyond is a tripartite combination of interviews with writers of the sf (speculative fiction, science fiction, fantasy, and folklore) genre, literary and cultural analysis of those interviews within the context of seven discrete yet overlapping dimensions: folklore, mythology, children?s and young adult literature, science, technology, climate disaster, and identity, and a theoretical basis of Caribbean futurism as an aesthetic practice reflecting not just future but past and present experiences of Caribbean people. The combination of interviews, analysis, and theory contributes to the ongoing questions that have been and will likely remain central to being and belonging to the Caribbean. The authors share their creative processes, inspirations, and the unique ways they address Caribbean experiences through stories that expand the boundaries of the genre.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements

Preface

1. Ethnographies of the Future: Caribbean Futurism in Literature and Theory


2. Folkloric Futures


3. Syncretic Mythologies


4. Growing Futures: Children?s and Young Adult Literature


5. Narrating Health from bush medicine to bioscience


6. Technologies of thought


7. Climate Justice and Disasters


8. Fractal Identity Formations

Epilogue: Caribbean Futurism: An Unfinished Product

Bibliography

Index